TRUDIE Styler — who co-founded the Rainforest Foundation 20 years ago — flew her hairstylist from New York to Washington, DC, last weekend on a private jet to do her hair and makeup for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

While her husband, Sting, flew on commercial flights round-trip from London, Styler and an entourage of eight, including her Manhattan-based hair guru Antonio Prieto, took a private plane to the event, instead of taking the shuttle or taking an energy-saving Amtrak train.

“The stylist was added to a previous scheduled flight to DC and flew back commercially,” a rep for Styler told Page Six.

Styler herself added, “Yes, I do take planes. My life is to travel and my life is also to speak out about the horrors of an environment that is being abused at the hands of oil companies.”

The rocker and his wife are big proponents of saving the rainforests. But as The Post reported last year, Sting’s star-studded charity concert for the Rainforest Foundation in 2006 donated only 41 percent of the proceeds to tree-saving programs. Well-run charities typically spend 75 percent on programs.

Last May, Britain’s Daily Mail reported the couple owns seven homes and “have a carbon footprint estimated at 30 times that of the average UK resident.”

But Sting and Styler are not the only celebrities who claim to be eco-conscious while guzzling fossil fuels. Al Gore, Barbra Streisand, Leonardo DiCaprio and John Travolta have all taken flak for their rapacious consumption.

Last month, Mariah Carey was voted the “least green” celebrity by GreenDaily.com for flying her personal trainer from St. Barts on a private jet. “People saw that as an extravagance rather than a necessity, and the consequences for the planet probably don’t justify it,” said the site’s editor-in-chief.